Made Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

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W. Somerset Maugham’s twenty‑two observations on 'Made' balance sharp humor with keen insight into human ambition. His literary flair and elegant phrasing turn each line into a polished vignette about how we shape our lives and works.

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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others…

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I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man, nothing but instant flight…

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What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?

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She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference.

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I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.

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No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it.

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I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it…

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Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the…

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I can only guess that it made the world he went back to...strangely without meaning. Though he lived in it, though he…

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Through the history of the world there have always been exploiters and exploited. There always will be ... because the great mass…

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She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer, made her confident way towards…

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I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the…

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There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves…

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Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made…

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For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or…

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The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made…

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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I…

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It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that…

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The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost…

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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach…

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Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with…

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She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it…

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“A man thinks it quite natural that he should fall out of love with a woman, but it never strikes him for a moment…

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“A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book…

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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We…

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“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.”

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“I wanted to live again and again. I was willing to accept every sort of life, no matter what its pain and sorrow; I…

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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

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Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

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“His love became a prison from which he longed to escape, but he had not the strength merely to open the door-that was all…

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I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness…

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If only the good were a little less heavy-footed

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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

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“A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?”

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“My dear, you used to be quite a dish; now you're quite a tureen.”

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“When people say they do not care what others thing of them, for the most part they deceive themselves”

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